Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 722: Snow and Wind
The blizzard covered almost the entire North, and even the colonies and dominions in the New World were greatly affected.

In such bad weather, all outdoor activities are naturally impossible.

No one would stay outside in the extreme cold of dozens of degrees below zero and the 12-degree strong wind.

In such bad weather, it can be said that anyone who dares to go out is almost sentenced to death.

Strong winds and low temperatures will quickly take away the body's heat, causing hypothermia in a very short period of time. This will cause the body's functions to decline and its thinking to become dull. The person will soon be lost in the bad weather and eventually be frozen to death in the wind and snow, and even the body may not be found.

In such extremely bad weather, even the Steam Knights could not guarantee survival outdoors.

After all, even with the protection of steel to resist the cold, the low temperature will still cause the Steam Knight itself to malfunction, and even the outer shell may be frozen directly.

These problems were indeed addressed by Perfect when designing the Steam Knight armor. There is a specially designed insulation layer between the outer shell and inner layer of the entire Steam Knight to resist the severe cold.

The output of the Steam Knight can also ensure that even if the outer shell freezes, it will not have much impact on the Steam Knight as long as he does not stand in the same place for a long time and is completely frozen.

But even for Perfect, when the Steam Knight was originally designed, it was only ensured that it could theoretically operate in a harsh environment of minus seventy degrees Celsius, rather than being designed to withstand such an extreme cold blizzard.

This has resulted in the entire northern territory now retreating underground, with all transportation and various production activities being interrupted.

"What is the disaster situation in various places? Has it been summarized?" In the basement office of Lord Chernoborg's Palace, Perfect was asking the officials who came to report the situation.

Although Perfect is now the Regent of the Empire, she should theoretically be based in Beloberg.

But due to various considerations of her living habits, after completing the first phase of the layout and construction of the flying battleship plan, Perfect returned to Chernobog.

As her carefully managed nest, it is from here that Perfectcot can better control the entire North.

Thanks to the telegraph network laid by Perfectcott, the entire North was hit by the disaster this time, so she was still able to obtain timely information about the situation in the entire North.

"We have completed the preliminary summary. The economic losses in various places are quite serious. About twenty people died in this blizzard, more than seventy people are missing, and more than three hundred people are injured because of this blizzard." The officials submitted a detailed report to Perfect.

After receiving the report, Perfecto's hands couldn't help but tremble a little, and seeing the final statistical figures made her extremely heartbroken.

Those were her people and her territory. Even if she had a heart of stone, she would still feel heartbroken to see them suffer such a huge loss.

But while feeling heartbroken, Perfect was also thinking about how to break the impasse.

It is obviously not enough to wait until after the snowstorm to send forces to disaster relief. Although that would be relatively safer, it would also cause a considerable number of small settlements that are remote, small in scale, and have little pressure-bearing capacity to lose hope of survival.

They themselves have little ability to cope with disasters and have already suffered huge losses in this sudden snowstorm.

If we wait until after the snowstorm to rescue them, they will most likely fall into despair due to lack of food and fuel.

No one wants to see such a situation.

"What is the status of material reserves in each settlement? Are there any settlements that need immediate support?" Although Perfect was confident in the North that he had built, some problems were unavoidable.

"Several relatively remote settlements have expressed the need for material support. The supplies they have stored are not enough to sustain the current situation for a long time. Moreover, the local coal output is the core to maintain the operation of the settlements in the northern region. We need to resume work in these settlements as soon as possible." The official reported the situation to Perfectok and also informed him of the list.

Perfect remembered every settlement in the North clearly and could quickly check them on the map.

Therefore, once the official said that, she had roughly confirmed that the location of these settlements in need of resources should be closer to the northwest of the Arctic Circle.

The area itself is remote and transportation is relatively difficult. Apart from an extended railway line, the area's daily supplies rely on regularly cruising airships.

With the presence of airships, the supply of materials for this generation is relatively stable, and local settlements are self-sufficient in various ways.

The main resource produced by the settlements in this area is fuel. The mined coal is transported by special trains every week or so. It can be said to be one of the important sources of industrial blood in the North.

It is just that because the coal mines are scattered, these settlements are also scattered along the entire ore vein and no large settlements have been formed.

Because the population is mainly miners, these settlements do not have any other production capacity of their own, and food mainly relies on external imports, so it is difficult for them to form food reserves.

This resulted in food in these settlements quickly becoming tight and scarce in the face of the blizzard, and they could only rely on the production of alchemical compressed biscuits to keep from starving to death.

If it weren't for the richer mineral resources near the Arctic Circle, the establishment of these settlements would seem quite unnecessary.

But now, Perfect had to worry about their existence.

In particular, in addition to sending people to support these settlements, Perfecto also needs to transport the precious coal produced here to other places and restore this coal transportation route.

The snowstorm continued, and it seemed like a fantasy to get the railway line back in operation.

If you want to send out an airship, this kind of weather will be even more suicidal.

Strong winds of up to level 12 will tear apart anything that is not fixed, and airships, which rely on wind power, are even more easily destroyed.

Under such circumstances, it is very difficult to provide assistance to these disaster-stricken settlements, even from Perfect's perspective.

You know, when a force 12 gale is accompanied by a blizzard, even a train fully loaded with coal will be shaken by the force 12 gale and may even be at risk of overturning.
-
"How can we provide help to these settlements..." Perfect also fell into long thought.

Encountering such severe weather, let alone this world, even in the original world before the time travel, it would seem like an impossible challenge to maintain the operation of these settlements in the north under such severe weather.

And Perfect began to try to use the power of 'omniscience' to search for a solution to the problem.

Of course there are solutions, but generally speaking they are too far-fetched. Undoubtedly, the first thing to solve the problem is transportation. We need a stable means of transportation that can withstand force 12 gales and blizzards.

This first requirement stumped everyone. Even if Parker Carter personally stepped in, he could only think of assembling a heavy armored train to barely cope with the situation.

As for other questions that Perfectoct had not thought of, Omniscience could not search for the answers on its own.

Apparently, Perfect had run out of inspiration, leaving her somewhat at a loss as to how to solve the problem.

And another key issue is that what Perfect needed was a solution that could solve the problem immediately, not a large project that would require a lot of time and resources.

This undoubtedly limits the answer to solving the problem to using the empire's existing technology, or even ready-made products.

Within this narrow scope, there are very few options for solving the problem.

For now, Perfect is more inclined to mobilize a large team of robots, carry enough resources, and then cross the blizzard.

If we look at it from the original design intention, large robots are indeed more often prepared to cope with such extreme environments.

The caravan parades composed of large robots in the North can be said to be the large robots' response mode to extremely severe weather.

But now the snow and wind are stronger than anything they have encountered before, which makes Perfectot worried whether the large robots can cope with it.

But if Perfect wants to solve the problem in the shortest time possible, the only option left for him is to use large robots.

After careful consideration, she reluctantly chose the large robot, which is currently the only thing that can cross the blizzard.
-
Several large robots were temporarily reinforced and then formed into a team. After testing to confirm that they could indeed withstand the wind and snow, these robots began to cross the blizzard.

Watching the team set off in the snow and wind, Perfecto felt mixed emotions, filled with worry and uneasiness.

This team is composed entirely of robots. There is no human in the team. They will rely entirely on the robots' own mechanical minds to make judgments, confirm their current status, and ultimately complete the mission of supporting settlements in the northern region.

You must know that before, although Perfect used large robots to maintain the transportation of resources in the North, there were still humans in every large robot caravan.

The staff accompanying the robot will correct the robot's actions when necessary so that it can cope with various emergencies.

This is equivalent to a programmer sitting next to a program while it is running, and starting to interrupt as soon as a bug is found.

Under such circumstances, the robot caravan in the North still encountered endless emergencies, which posed severe tests for both the accompanying staff and the big robots themselves.

Fortunately, although the operating model of the robot caravan has encountered various problems over the years, it is still a very successful system overall.

It can be said that they made valuable contributions to the previous prosperity of the North.

However, now, Perfect not only needs a large robot to cross the wind and snow, but it doesn't even have a staff member to accompany the team.

It all depends on the various data accumulated by the mechanical mind of the large robot, which can operate autonomously to deal with various problems.

It’s not that Perfect didn’t intentionally send staff to accompany the robot, but the harsh environment did not allow staff to accompany the large robot.

Extreme cold and strong winds would take the lives of these workers, but the robots themselves can withstand such harsh environments.

However, the problems that were previously solved by the team staff now all depend on the robots themselves, which is also a huge test for these robots.

This also makes Perfect very worried. He is worried about whether these robots can complete their tasks smoothly and whether they can deal with various problems they may encounter.

All these problems at the moment have made Perfect more determined to build a floating city.

If there were floating cities, they could be used to provide assistance to affected settlements, which would undoubtedly be much more convenient than the current method.

After all, it is a flying city that can effectively defend against various possible problems.

Many problems that are completely impossible for individuals or autonomous robots to handle are completely insignificant in front of the floating city.

The only thing that needs to be considered may be the cost-effectiveness issue. The expenses of moving an entire city are not small at all.

But judging from the impact of the current situation, when the floating city needs to be put into motion, cost-effectiveness is probably the last thing to consider.
-
After returning to the lord's mansion, Perfecto locked himself in the laboratory again.

Although she knew that she should pay more attention to the problems encountered in various parts of the North, she was full of worries and could do nothing, so she could only vent her energy in the laboratory.

"Oh, it would be great if there really was a floating city now!" Looking at the model hanging in his laboratory, Perfecto couldn't help but sigh.

However, she does not have the floating city in her hands now.

If it were someone else, they might just talk about it, but for Perfect, she was really seriously considering how to build a floating city.

"Maybe I can split up the large floating city and build a small flying fortress?" An idea that seemed feasible suddenly popped up in Perfectcot's mind.

This inspired her. Building a floating city is too expensive. Even if she sells the current North Territory, she may not be able to get enough resources to build a floating city.

But if it is replaced with a small flying fortress, the expenses will be much smaller.

After all, the size is there, and if it is a small flying fortress, many things can be simplified.

This can also verify the various technologies that need to be considered in building a floating city, and actually consider the various issues required to build and maintain the operation of a floating city, laying the foundation for actually building a floating city.

(End of this chapter)